![]() ![]() Apple’s Pro laptop just embarrasses its Air sibling when the two are set side by side. ![]() The difference between the two machines is as simple as it is compelling: the display. After reviewing the 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina display, however, I’m asking myself why I am still stuck with the Air. Its battery didn’t last as long, it was thicker and heavier, and it was more expensive. Until this year, I wondered why anyone would buy the MacBook Pro, a laptop I considered to be a fatter, slightly more powerful version of the Air. Has Apple forsaken what was once its best PC? And this week there’s the looming threat of the iPad Pro on the horizon. Apple introduced the new 12-inch MacBook and updated the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, both directly competing with the Air, and for those not umbilically attached to OS X, Dell’s XPS 13 offered a compelling Windows alternative. For years, the MacBook Air has been a standard-bearer, the role model for every Windows ultrabook, but 2015 has not been so kind to its leadership position. That new laptop was a revelation: extremely thin and light, like the original Air, yet also powerful enough for most tasks and equipped with a long-lasting battery. ![]() When Apple redesigned the MacBook Air in 2010, it created one of the best machines to ever carry its Mac label.
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